marsbars Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Does anyone know of some good exercises for the beginner/intermediate for developing relative pitch, identifying chords, singing melodies etc. using a piano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Gorrick Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Yeah, transcribe recordings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 There is a very good program (free as well), called GNU Solfege. Also, there is a book by Samuel Adler called "Sight Singing" or something, and also a book by Hindemith on musicians' training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiming Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Wow, looks like a pretty helpful program :D ... although the drawback is that it does not run on Mac :dry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvitske Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Sibelius' Auralia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EldKatt Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Wow, looks like a pretty helpful program :D... although the drawback is that it does not run on Mac :dry: GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Solfege / InstallingSolfege Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 What, and pay 130 pounds for something which you can have for free? No thanks :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiming Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Solfege / InstallingSolfege I got 10.3.9 :laugh: Although I am planning on buying that cute black MacBook :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Sight singing helps, I've found, as does listening to music while reading the score. For recognising intervals it's sometimes useful to remember intervals by a tune - for example I learnt the sound of a perfect fifth from the first two notes in the Star Wars theme :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Yeah, sight-singing is good :) Kodaly's method is also pretty good, as it works very simply and gradually and builds up your ear and singing. Uhm.. that's a fourth, Mark... :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiming Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Someone just got pwned, oh BURN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Yeah, sight-singing is good :)Kodaly's method is also pretty good, as it works very simply and gradually and builds up your ear and singing. Uhm.. that's a fourth, Mark... :P :huh: YouTube - John Williams Star Wars theme I disagree... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardener Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Well, if you don't count the upbeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Oh, I meant the upbeat.. Yeah, the other two notes are a fifth indeed. But the upbeat is much more memorable than the other two notes. Anyway, the fifth is such a natural interval I don't think you'd actually need a song to remember it >_> It's weird, though, because a research my teacher back in Greece told me about showed that Greek children found it easier to sing the fourth and augmented fourth than the rest of Europe, while they had difficulties singing a fifth, which the rest of Europe managed just fine. Weird stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardener Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Sometimes the most "natural" intervals can be the hardest to recognize, because they melt together so much. I've so often seen people who (after perfectly recognizing thirds, sixths, sevenths, tritoni, etc.) had the greatest trouble recognizing an octave :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Hm.. maybe.. You could tell them to use the upbeat to "Let it snow" as a mnemonic song for an octave then, I assume :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecowgoesmoo Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBOL3 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 If' you (like me) can't compile source code, there is one thing you could do. If you're mac is new enough, then you could download an Ubuntu liveCD (or any other liveCD), then you can download it from there. True, you would have to re-download it every time you reboot, but it's not that big of a program. Other options are putting it on a thumb drive, or installing ubuntu (other linux distros). Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 You can get Feather Linux on a USB stick, and DSL as well, you don't need to install such a heavy-weight (in terms of size) distro like ubuntu to get it working :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Charlie Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Sibelius' Auralia? Second this! I got it a while back and it certain has helped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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